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CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO.8, WINTER, 1983

Walter C. Leedy, Jr: Cleveland's Terminal Tower: the Van Sweringens' Afterthought, 3

The financial, political, and architectUIal saga of the building of Cleveland's central landmark.

Clinton L. Warne: The Great Natural Gas Pipeline Rip-Off, 27

President Reagan's waiver of all effective regulation of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline could have a damaging effect on the national economy while insuring private investors' profits.

Jerrold Sadock: Languages of the World: Inuit (Eskimo), 31

The language with the longest words in the world.

Winners of the Gamut Prize in the Visual Arts, 35

Judith Pittenger-Meyer, 36

Penny Rakoff, 38

Mark Soppeland, 40

Reid Wood, 42

Thomas J. Watts: The Poet as Hero: The Cult of Pushkin in Soviet Russia, 44

Official and unofficial veneration of the nineteenth-century poet vastly exceeds the recognition accorded any writer in the West, including Shakespeare.

Rescuing the Future: the Gamut Looks at the Cleveland School System, 61

The Critics:

Nancy Oakley: Politics, Power, and Profit Make Schools a Mess, 64

Richard C. Israel and Nancy Oakley: The Schools Flunk Reading, 67

The Teachers

Sheila L. Friedman: Starting Off Right. Life in a Cleveland first grade, 73

James E. O'Meara, Jr. Mighty Problems, Desperate Remedies: Interview, 79

J.E. Vacha: Let the Teachers Teach, 86

The Academics

Richard J. McArdle: Higher Education and the Schools, 88

Everett F. Cataldo: Desegregation and Declining Enrollment, 91

Roberta M. Steinbacher: Choosing a Superintendent. Interview, 94

The Administrators

Frederick D. Holliday: A School System for a Changing Society, 100

Joseph G. Tegreene: Can a New School Board Turn It Around, 105

Dean Fleenor and James Lanese: Teachers Union and Administration Cooperate on Staff Development, 106

The Editors. Conclusion, 108

Melvin Drimmer: Three Jewish Fridays in Africa, 110

Jewish communities are disappearing in African cities where they once flourished.

Publication Date

Winter 1983

Publisher

Cleveland State University

City

Cleveland

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 08, Winter 1983

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